OMG! IP theft! Where’s RIAA when you need it?!

So I came to work today, and found out I can’t has no internets, because there’s an IP conflict on the net. So I joggled them some and found one that wasn’t taken. Then, I pinged my old IP and looked for (in Windows) who was using it with arp -a By that time the [...]

Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird report profile in use

An awesome explanation lies elsewhere. One reason it may happen (which they don’t mention for the obvious rarity of it) is your drive letter (in Windows, of course) having changed. That was the case for me after some re-partitioning done.

Building my simple BOINC application under Windows

It was developed and tested under FreeBSD. Then I had to compile and build it under Windows. First I tried Cygwin and failed due to some defenitions missing in Cygwin’s libraries. Or my installed libraries. Heck, it was so many error lines ago, I can’t even remember what it was. Then I tried Dev-C++. I [...]

Nope, think again

Of course, Newsfox had to freak out on Windows. Switched to RSSOwl version 1. Now that’s supported on both platforms. I’ve slept 4 hours last night, and it wasn’t the healthiest sleep. Getting up at 7 or so tomorrow to be at an environment-preservation event. P.S. Nah, I didn’t go. Instead, I’ve finished the portable [...]

ASIO4ALL and Realtek HD Audio

I was ripping a few vinyls this morning (using Wind0ws and Cool Edit), and couldn’t figure out why the output was so bad. It was all muddy, the highs were dull and sounded like they were cut off. Overall, it looked like a sampling problem. I tried different settings for ASIO4ALL, tried installing new audio [...]